Hmm, I don't think this was a design or style choice. It sounds a lot less risky to just modify the validator variable here via some binary hacking than try to

Hmm, I don't think this was a design or style choice. It sounds a lot less risky to just modify the validator variable here via some binary hacking than try to remove all the code responsible for generating those ship questions. In the article, Paczyński claims source code is very rare for these games, and I imagine they just incorporate community binary hacks and call it a day. Funny enough, I remember having this issue with a Steam game and the 'fix' was googling the old manual. Luckily, it only happened once per session. It seems like Valve is a much more conservative group than GOG.